State officials are charging 25 companies with working as movers without licenses after a four-day sting last week.Undercover investigators from the state Division of Consumer

NEWARK - State officials are charging 25 companies with working as movers without licenses after a four-day sting last week.

Undercover investigators from the state Division of Consumer Affairs contacted 25 moving companies through Craigslist and other websites and asked them to move items out of a storage facility in Bridgewater.

Among those that showed up were two with drivers who had suspended licenses, one in an unregistered truck and one driving a P.C. Richard and Son truck that the company said he was not authorized to use.